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August 01, 2007

Moloch Reins in Baghdad

You may have heard the wonderful news out of Iraq yesterday that July brought us the lowest American death toll in eight months. We "only" lost 78 of our finest, down from 101 in June. What you probably didn't hear, however, was that deaths of Iraqi civilians are way up. The latest government figures say civilian deaths in Iraq rose by 33% in July to at least 1,652 despite the country's security plan, which began with the U.S.'s "surge." That means that in just one month nearly half as many Iraqi civilians have died as all the Americans killed in Iraq since the war began. And those deaths have not been easy ones. Dozens of people – including children - are burned to death or have body parts blown off and bleed to death in the wake of car bombs and suicide bombs every day.

The violence has reached such a level that the largest Sunni bloc resigned from the coalition government, meaning Iraq can no longer claim to be nationally unified.

May those who are so glibly sacrificing the children of two nations to the god of monsters and filling buckets with the tears of grieving mothers find themselves tormented in the bowels of Hell for all eternity. Amen.

Posted by Becky at August 1, 2007 11:45 AM